Date (Publication)

2003-09-28

Citation identifier

British Geological Survey / BGS_CMD_REF656

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Custodian
Wessex Archaeology		offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk	Originator

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Keywords

• NDGO0001

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages (L131)

• soil and sediment
• crust

SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P021)

• Lithology
• Bathymetry and Elevation
• Two-dimensional seismic reflection

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Access constraints

No restrictions, a copyright acknowledgement is required and permission from any third party for the release of the data has been obtained. Inclusion of any third party data will determine the copyright acknowledgement that needs to be made.

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Use limitation

unrestricted use, copyright acknowledgement - Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced Wessex Archaeology materials "Contains Wessex Archaeology materials ©Wessex Archaeology [year]"

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language

English

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

Wight

BGS Gazetteer 2025-07-14 revision

Geographic identifier

Eastern Channel

Charting Progress 2: Regional Sea Boundaries 2009-06-18 creation

Geographic identifier

ENGLISH CHANNEL

The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer: Sub-Ocean Category 1954-01-01 creation

Begin date

2003-07-01

End date

2003-09-28

Reference system identifier

OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

www.epsg.org 2005 revision

Distribution format

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
HTTP	http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex_offshore/home.html?cruise=WESSEX4	BGS Offshore Geoindex

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Geophysical equipment types used included: Echo Sounder and Surface Tow Boomer. Sample equipment types used included: Corer: Vibrocorer. Emu Ltd was contracted to undertake the survey on behalf of Wessex Archaeology. Twenty vibrocores and 245km of seismic survey data were collected over a 3.5km by 1km area, but primarily in a central 1km² around a buried palaeo-channel feature. The geophysical dataset was acquired in three phases. Initially a series of prospection lines were acquired. The survey grid for the second phase had survey lines 3.5km long, orientated NE-SW, at a 50m line spacing. Cross lines were 1km long, orientated NW-SE and at a line spacing of 500m. The aim of this phase of the survey was to collect data in order to confirm the position and orientation of the palaeo-channel feature identified during the propection lines. Once this survey had been completed and the position of the palaeo-channel had been delineated the third phase of surveying was implemented. This involved surveying a 1km block that encompassed the palaeo-channel feature in this area. This 1km block had survey lines 1km long, orientated both NE-SW and NW-SE at a 10m line spacing in both directions. Based on the geophysics results a judgement-led sampling strategy was developed in order to investigate specific research questions. Locations were chosen through the initial interpretation of the sub-bottom profiling data in order to calibrate the geophysical data and confirm the presence of an infilled palaeochannel. On 27th and 28th September 2003, a 6m hydraulic vibrocorer was used to acquire the twenty vibrocores. This work was carried out by a sub-contractor to EMU Ltd. The geophysical survey was conducted aboard the Emu Surveyor between the 1-18 July 2003. The data acquisition was conducted by Emu Ltd under the supervision of WA staff. Single-beam echosounder and sub-bottom profiler data were acquired. Bathymetric data was recorded throughout all stages of the survey using a single beam echo sounder acquired using a Knudsen 320M dual-frequency echosounder. Sub-bottom profiler data were acquired using an Applied Acoustics AA200 surface-tow boomer system and the data were recorded on an Octopus 360 sub-bottom processor. The sub-bottom profiler were originally acquired in *.cod format and were then converted to .sgy format using Coda Utilities 2.6.0 software.

Metadata

File identifier

c5bc60cd-04ea-3862-e044-0003ba9b0d97 XML

Metadata language

English

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-07-14

Metadata standard name

MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard

Metadata standard version

Version 2.3.5

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey (BGS)		enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact